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Violence In Schools Essay, Research
Paper

Violence in
Schools:

A hazard to
learn?

Katie Conrad

Writing about
Literature

For many years
there has been an increase in the cases of violence in schools.
Violence, in itself, has been a problem plaguing schools and just
recently has it taken deadly actions. But what causes these outbreaks
of aggression and hatred to occur? Is it the community where the
school is or peers that children come in contact with? Some factors
that might contribute to violence in schools is the family influence,
society?s shortcomings, the media and drugs. But can it really all be
blamed on this?

Family Influence

Family structure
is extremely important in raising a well-sound and adjusted child. If
a child?s parents raise their child in a structured household it is
thought to produce an upstanding young adult. Many ?perceive that the
major factors contributing to student violence are lack of parental
supervision at home and lack of family involvement? (Anonymous 1). So
if all children are shown in their home is violence and hatred, how
will they learn anything else? Children need strong role models and
constant attention to develop normally and have good, strong values.
If they are neglected and left to raise themselves, they might fall
through the crack ,so to speak, and choose the wrong path. ?Parenting
that indulges, neglect, abuses, or ignores children, and that fails
to provide strong, positive guidance, discipline, and nurturance,
contributes to the spread of violence in schools? (Anonymous 1). So
if absolutely no guidance is shown toward the child, who will they
learn from? Also if the parents are preoccupied with ?concentrating
more on the economic survival of the family? (Anonymous 1) than also
there will be less time to parent the child. If a child grows up in a
low-income household, the parents may be very focused with
maintaining a family income to keep the family going. This may cause
the child or children to be ignored and having to raise themselves.
Which will make them susceptible to many outside influences, whether
they be good or bad. ?Neighborhoods characterized predominately by
single-parent households tend to have fewer social resources and
networks necessary for developing and maintaining local institutions,
and for helping parents acquire the social capital necessary in
deterring children from violence and delinquency? (Anonymous 3). But
violence doesn?t just brew in the tenements of the poor. Many recent
cases of school violence, that in the case of the Columbine incident,
where the children involved were brought up in upper-middle class
household where both parents were present. So how can these tragedies
of ?good? kids gone wrong be explained. It might not be all on the
parents shoulders.

Society?s
Problem?

Could the blame
on violence be put onto society? Is it that because of the lack of
positive role models and quality activities that are not provided for
children that this contributes to the demise of today?s school
system? There are many role models for children today- but are they
all positive? Many children idealize athletes, actors and actresses
and musicians just to name a few. But are they all stabile enough to
?look up to?? It is said that a ?lack of positive role models or
significant adults who care? (Anonymous 2) is a defining factor in
school violence. Another contributing factor to violence is the easy
access to weapons. Can one be optained without much resistance? A
startling fact- ?The majority of children who have access to weapons
and play violent video games do not engage in violent acts?
(Anonymous 4). Was it easy to obtain weapons for the shooting in
Littleton, CO? Klebold?s (one of the shooters in the
crime)girlfriend, ?bought 3 guns possibly used in the killings?
(Anonymous 5). Also a ?22-year-old man was arrested for selling a TEC
DC9 assault pistol which was used in the shootings?and the boys and
man also went shooting on several occasions? (Anonymous 5). Are all
these people to blame for the crime since they provided the weapons?
Or is the finger that pulled the trigger the only one to blame?

The Media

How much does
the media affect our society? This questions had been pondered since
the first beginnings of television and radio. If a child sees
something does it mean that they will believe it and imitate it?
Today there is an abundance of violent images in books, magazines,
video games, music and television shows. But how does a society stop
this? Action films are one of the top grossing film categories- will
they stop being made so that schools can once again be safe? Many rap
artists in the music industry who children idealize relay negative
images of a sugar-coated glamorous lifestyle. They show how you can
become rich, powerful and successful with the right people, weapons
and illegal activities. In their songs violence is glorified and put
up onto a pedestal- do we want our children to want this as well?

Drugging our
Future?

Drugs are widely
used among today?s youth. Drugs can constitute anything from illegal
narcotics such as marijuana and cocaine to alcohol to even nicotine.
But does this influence children to commit violent acts in schools?
?Students cited involvement with drugs and alcohol as the third major
factor contributing to school violence? (Anonymous 1). Much of the
drug use of illegal drugs such as ?the use of heroin, cocaine,
marijuana, and crack is down among students in grades 6-12, the
consumption of alcohol is not. Alcohol is the number one drug used by
teenagers and young adults? (Anonymous 1). Are these drugs used to
suppress emotional distress or depression which heightens
irritability and in the end results in violence? ?Boys in particular
may feel a sociocultural pressure to act tough and not express their
feelings in a calm way? (Anonymous 4). So with these tendencies that
boys have mixed with drugs, this might cause violent rages thus
resulting in violent acts. But is there anyway to predict this before
hand and save our schools?

Foreseeing the
Danger

Can one be a
predictor of violence before it occurs? There may be tell tale signs
to look for in a child that can predict if they have violent
tendencies. Some of the following are:

There are also
certain characteristics of serious juvenile offenders. Some of the
following sings are:

 Delinquency
case before age 13

 Low family
income

 child deemed
troublesome by teachers and peers at age 8-10

 Poor school
performance by age 10

 Psychomotor
clumsiness

 Low
non-verbal I.Q.

 Sibling
convicted of crime

 Head injury
and/or physical/sexual abuse

(Anonymous 6).

With all of
these factors, one can see that there are many signs to foretell
violence, teachers, parents and peers just need to open their eyes to
these dangerous signs and act on instinct. If one notices these
signs, talk to the child or parent. Innocence does not need to be
lost when these signs are presented before hand and violence can be
prevented. Many do not take these signs seriously. ?Every day,
schools all over the country are being forced to interrupt their
teaching to deal with malicious bomb threats, made by deranged and
unstable people who think it is ?fun? to cause pain, grief, fear and
disruption? (Anonymous 8). Hopefully we can take these past
experiences into account and learn from them. Together with the above
information and the initiative to help our schools we can make them
safer for the purpose they were created for- to learn.

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